After launching just three years ago, Google is putting an end to Nearby Notifications on Android. The feature, which was intended to serve up location-specific information, had recently become inundated with marketers and spammers. Android users will stop receiving Nearby Notifications entirely on December 6, 2018.
When Google introduced the Nearby Notifications feature back in 2015 along with some other location-based services, the company imagined it as service that would proactively provide useful information to people as they went about their day. The idea was that developers could set up location-based beacons that would ping a person's device stuff they might like to know, like where to find free Wi-Fi or when the next bus is scheduled to arrive.
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